Mata Hari (1927 film)
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| Directed by | Friedrich Feher |
| Written by | Leo Birinsky |
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| Cinematography | Leopold Kutzleb |
| Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
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| Distributed by | National Film |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
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Mata Hari: The Red Dancer (German: Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Wolfgang Zilzer and Fritz Kortner. It depicts the life and death of the German World War I spy Mata Hari. It was the first feature-length portrayal of Hari.
It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin with sets designed by Alfred Junge.
Cast
[edit]- Magda Sonja as Mata Hari
- Wolfgang Zilzer as Erzherzog Oskar
- Fritz Kortner as Graf Bobrykin
- Mathias Wieman as Grigori
- Emil Lind as Defense lawyer
- Eduard Rothauser as Military Auditor
- Max Maximilian as Kosaken Unteroffizier
- Leo Connard as Polizeihofrat
- Elisabeth Bach as Mata Hari's Indische Dienerin
- Dorothea Albu as Dancer
- Alexander Murski
- Hermann Wlach
- Lewis Brody
- Eberhard Leithoff
- Georg Paeschke
- Zlatan Kasherov
- Carl Zickner
- Nico Turoff
- Georg Gartz
See also
[edit]- Mata Hari (1931)
- Mata Hari, Agent H21 (1964)
- Mata Hari (1985)
Bibliography
[edit]- Kelly, Andrew. Cinema and the Great War. Routledge, 1997.
External links
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- 1927 films
- 1920s spy drama films
- German silent feature films
- German spy drama films
- Films directed by Friedrich Feher
- Films set in Paris
- Films set in the 1910s
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- Films of the Weimar Republic
- World War I spy films
- Cultural depictions of Mata Hari
- Films shot at Staaken Studios
- National Film films
- German black-and-white films
- 1927 drama films
- Silent drama films
- Silent war films
- 1920s German films
- Films scored by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
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